Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance E3 2012 trailer is a real cut-up]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/01/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-e3-2012-trailer-is-a-real-cut-up/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/01/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-e3-2012-trailer-is-a-real-cut-up/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/01/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-e3-2012-trailer-is-a-real-cut-up/#comments It takes over a minute and a half for Raiden to pull out his sword in this new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer released tonight ahead of E3 2012. But once he does, it's definitely worth the wait. Raiden's return will be playable during E3 next week, and we'll be there to take his blades for a spin.

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance E3 2012 trailer is a real cut-up originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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During Konami's pre-E3 press briefing, Hideo Kojima revealed an early-access demo for Metal Gear Rising: Reveangence would be included with Zone of the Enders HD Collection. He didn't go into any details about how players will access the demo, but at least we know the important first step: you have to buy Zone of the Enders HD Collection. PSN and Xbox Live users will be able to access the same demo at a later date.

JoystiqEarly access Metal Gear Rising demo included with Zone of the Enders HD originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Previously, Konami's FMV-esque trailers for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance have given us weird, disorienting looks into the surgical processes involving Raiden's robo-arm and cyborg eye, but this latest episode is a little more ... theatrical, let's say.

Anyone who clearly remembers and is still somehow able to comprehend Raiden's background as outlined in Metal Gear Solid 2 will be able to piece together what's happening in this video, though we're still not entirely sure why you'd hand a sword to someone during surgery, even if that surgery's purpose is to turn them into a milk-powered electro-ninja.

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising's live-action vignettes continue with 'Sword' originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 17 May 2012 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just a quick warning: you won't see any cyborg ninja guys slicing robots in twain in this Metal Gear Rising video. This is the other part of Metal Gear - the part in which shadowy "authority" types deliver long speeches you won't understand.

It looks like Konami is setting up some kind of political intrigue backstory for Revengeance, with political machinations going on behind all the fighting and an entity called "Desperado" causing trouble. We're glad to see that not everything has changed in the transition to a new sub-series and a new developer.

JoystiqCryptic Metal Gear Rising trailer lets you not understand the story right now originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 May 2012 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There's a possibility that Raiden is sitting in the doctor's seat just above, like a good little droog, or it could be Clockwork Orange's Alex getting a reprogramming. We can't be sure, but it sure does seem like whoever it is isn't having a very good time. Perhaps it's time for Revengeance?

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising or Clockwork Orange: You decide! originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 04 May 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What we have here is the full version of last week's Metal Gear Rising FMV teaser. What we don't have is clear grasp of what's going on in it. Perhaps it's the initial rebuilding process of the game's main character, Raiden? Perhaps it's violent torture, and the seed for "Revengeance"?

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising vid may show the surgical origins of 'Revengeance' originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You've seen Metal Gear as a top-down 2D stealth game on NES. You've seen it as a polygonal, highly cinematic stealth action game in the "Solid" series. You've seen it as a card game in the "Acid" series. You've even seen the first glimpses of Metal Gear as a pure action game.

And now, you'll get to peek into an alternate universe where Metal Gear is a mid-'90s FMV adventure game, courtesy of this bizarre live-action Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance teaser video. All that's missing is Tia Carrere and some random "cyberpunk" overlays - oh, wait, that last thing is fully accounted for. We hope this doesn't portend another complete reboot. We'll find out what this silly video is about on April 30.

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising goes FMV in teaser video originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>metal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftplaystationps3xboxThu, 26 Apr 2012 11:40:00 EST<![CDATA[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance playable at E3 [update: Kenji Saito directing]]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/18/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-playable-at-e3/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/18/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-playable-at-e3/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/18/metal-gear-rising-revengeance-playable-at-e3/#comments While we still think it's too early to get our hopes up, it appears that the new Platinum version of Metal Gear Rising will achieve what the Kojima Productions version never could: a playable demo. In a Famitsu magazine interview summarized by Andriasang, Hideo Kojima revealed that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance will be playable at E3 this year.

As you may have expected, the stealth element is no longer present in Revengeance. In the interview, Platinum CEO Tatsuya Minami said that stealth was the first element to go when Platinum took over. Kojima now says he never wanted stealth in there.

Update: Additional excerpts from the article reveal Bayonetta main programmer Kenji Saito as Rising's director. Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya is not involved.

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance playable at E3 [update: Kenji Saito directing] originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>e3-2012kojima-productionskonamimetal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftplaystationps3xboxWed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Take a tour of Platinum Games' new office space]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/take-a-tour-of-platinum-games-new-office-space/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/take-a-tour-of-platinum-games-new-office-space/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/take-a-tour-of-platinum-games-new-office-space/#comments Platinum Games, the wordsmiths behind Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Bayonetta, moved its offices down one entire floor in Japan's Umeda Sky Building, from the ninth to the eighth, and took the opportunity to remodel its layout. The new Platinum offices have color-coded conference rooms. Personally, we like the vibe in the Red Room, probably because we can picture ourselves sitting across from Don Draper, drinking scotch on the rocks while our children grow up without us.

The move keeps Platinum's open-floor layout, a library with reference books on cats and a stunning view of downtown Osaka. We'll see how the new office works out for Platinum with the release of Revengeance, supposedly some time this year. Check out the new digs on the Platinum Games blog.

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JoystiqTake a tour of Platinum Games' new office space originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>metal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftnew-officePlatinum-Gamesplaystationps3xboxTue, 10 Jan 2012 05:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Hideo Kojima gets his Revengeance with Metal Gear Rising]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/13/hideo-kojima-gets-his-revengeance-with-metal-gear-rising/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/13/hideo-kojima-gets-his-revengeance-with-metal-gear-rising/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/13/hideo-kojima-gets-his-revengeance-with-metal-gear-rising/#comments Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and Platinum Games producer Atsushi Inaba took the stage at Konami's offices here in Los Angeles earlier this week for a mea culpa of sorts: Kojima now admits that Metal Gear Solid Rising, though it may have looked nice in the trailer back at E3 2010, just wasn't working.

"In the summer of 2010, the team made a presentation for me," he recounted through a translator, "and I realized the game design still wasn't there yet." The team's vision was split between stealth and action, the idea of "cut everything" worked technically but made for gameplay that was too open-ended, and the game just wasn't fun, says Kojima. "As the young staff said to me, they wanted a good game that just felt good moving around, and we would never get that, so I decided to cancel the project."

"But still, we had a lot of things" that could still be used, says Kojima. "Motion capture, a lot of good story, the view of the world inside the game, and I wanted to use that somehow. I wanted Rising to be born again, so that's when I decided to contact Platinum Games."

Gallery: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3/ Xbox 360)

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A quick warning: all the old Metal Gear Solid: Rising media is still on the site, now labeled with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's title. If you're watching a trailer and there are watermelons or "Zan-Datsu" ... that's the old game.

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JoystiqMetal Gear Solid website provides handy timeline of many confusing events originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>konamimetal-gearmetal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solidmetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftplaystationps3xboxMon, 12 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Metal Gear Rising was secretly canceled before Platinum took it on]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/12/metal-gear-rising-was-secretly-canceled-before-platinum-took-it/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/12/metal-gear-rising-was-secretly-canceled-before-platinum-took-it/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/12/metal-gear-rising-was-secretly-canceled-before-platinum-took-it/#comments We hadn't heard any official news on Metal Gear Solid: Rising for over a year, and then it showed up with a new name, a new storyline, and a new team making it. You don't have to be part of a secret cabal of world-dominating AIs to realize that there was some ... trouble somewhere in the last year. And, in fact, Rising had been canceled.

The staff at Kojima Productions had the "cut anything" concept realized, according to Andriasang's report of the latest Hideraji podcast. They also had the motion capture done and a story written ... but the rest was in the air. Without a clearer direction, Kojima decided to end development.

Platinum Games studio reps happened to visit, the story goes, and expressed their excitement for the project, leading to their assignment to complete the game. It was Platinum's idea to change the story, and they also offered the concept of "a game where it feels so good to chop things up that you would die," as Andriasang translates it. We think that's a more promising concept than a game where it feels good to chop things up, and then the game dies.

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising was secretly canceled before Platinum took it on originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Kojima-Productionskonamimetal-gear-risingmetal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftPlatinum-Gamesplaystationps3xboxMon, 12 Dec 2011 10:26:00 EST<![CDATA[Metal Gear Rising's story revised, now set post-MGS4]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/11/metal-gear-risings-story-revised-now-set-post-mgs4/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/11/metal-gear-risings-story-revised-now-set-post-mgs4/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/11/metal-gear-risings-story-revised-now-set-post-mgs4/#comments The newly Platinum-plated Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance features a story different from the one planned for the old Metal Gear Solid: Rising. While the game was originally intended to take place between Metal Gear Solids 2 and 4, the setting has now been transfarred to a time years after MGS4. This was done in order to let Platinum "show off what they can bring to the series." Without creating a time paradox and accidentally undoing the events of MGS4, we suppose.

Raiden joins up with private military companies for various jobs including "VIP protection, military training and other duties" as an unspecified country rebuilds from a civil war. "Little does he know that the stage is set for a clash with an enigmatic force of countless cyborgs."

This information comes via the official site, which is also the source for the new screens in our gallery. The site provides a detailed listing of staff for the title, including Platinum's Atsushi Inaba (the guy on stage with Kojima) as producer alongside Konami's Yuji Korekado. It could stand to be more detailed, as there's no game director listed.

Konami still has some revealing to do: the site claims that a video interview titled "The Truth Behind RISING" will explain the genesis of the Platinum/Kojipro collaboration, on December 13.

By the way, the site lists only PS3 and Xbox 360 releases -- no PC.

Gallery: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3/ Xbox 360)

JoystiqMetal Gear Rising's story revised, now set post-MGS4 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Rising is now Platinum Game's Metal Gear Rising: Reveangeance, just as we were lead to believe by the trailer that leaked earlier today. Raiden, apparently channeling his unstoppable child soldier roots, has gone fully cyborg ninja in order to hack, slash and grotesquely dismember every single thing that exists.

We're not going to lie, the idea of taking a RAY model Metal Gear head on with a robotic lightning sword makes us tingle in very specific, covert places.

JoystiqJust like we said, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance developed by Platinum Games originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>konamimetal-gearmetal-gear-risingmetal-gear-rising-revengeancemetal-gear-solid-risingplatinum-gamesraidenspike-vga-2011Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:14:00 EST<![CDATA[Metal Gear Solid Rising now Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, developed by Platinum Games [update]]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/10/metal-gear-rising-developed-by-platinum-games/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/10/metal-gear-rising-developed-by-platinum-games/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/10/metal-gear-rising-developed-by-platinum-games/#comments The latest trailer for Metal Gear Solid Rising (now totally and completely Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) has leaked onto NeoGAF ahead of tonight's anticipated Spike VGA reveal, and boy does it ever reveal stuff, primarily that the title is being developed by the over-the-top action aficionados responsible for Bayonetta, Platinum Games. The trailer also looks much more like an actual game than previous footage we've seen from Konami in the past. We're sure more will be revealed during tonight's VGAs.

Update: To clarify the blatant lack of a trailer above this post, here's the poop: This was a leak, meaning that no one was supposed to see the trailer or glean information from its sparkly vissage until later tonight, during its official reveal at the Spike TV VGAs. If the suspense is literally killing you, you might be able to find a copy of it on YouTube or other streaming sites, but know that uploads we've seen have disappeared as fast as we found them. We will, of course, be posting the trailer in the highest possible quality once it is "officially" released later tonight.

JoystiqMetal Gear Solid Rising now Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, developed by Platinum Games [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>konamimetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftplatinum-gamesplaystationps3spike-vga-2011vga-2011xboxSat, 10 Dec 2011 16:15:00 EST<![CDATA[Kojima's 'Project Ogre' will be different, but not anytime soon]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/26/kojimas-project-ogre-will-be-different-but-not-anytime-soon/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/26/kojimas-project-ogre-will-be-different-but-not-anytime-soon/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/26/kojimas-project-ogre-will-be-different-but-not-anytime-soon/#comments There's an unusually high concentration of Metal Gear(?!) buzzing around the industry right now: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is upscaling its way through living rooms the world over, while Metal Gear Solid Rising's production continues, once again under the watchful eye of series progenitor Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear Solid 5 is even closer to being a thing now, but what about Kojima's other other baby, Project Ogre?

"I can't really say too much about that project yet, but it's a very subdued experience," Kojima said during an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine UK. "It's a little bit different to what I've done up until now. On the surface it will look similar, but once you get into it, it will be a different experience."

Announcements like this always get our blood pumping. Metal Gear set in medieval times? Zone of the Ogres? Whatever Project Ogre is, we at least know that it's a long way off: "The Ogre project is going to take a lot of time, so I want to produce some other things on the side, like I'm doing with Rising."

Oh! Dude. Policenaogres. Think about it, Kojima.

JoystiqKojima's 'Project Ogre' will be different, but not anytime soon originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>hideo-kojimakojimakonamimetal-gearmetal-gear-solidmetal-gear-solid-5metal-gear-solid-hd-collectionmetal-gear-solid-risingproject-ogreSat, 26 Nov 2011 13:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Metal Gear Solid: Rising gets new producer]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/17/metal-gear-solid-rising-gets-new-producer/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/17/metal-gear-solid-rising-gets-new-producer/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/17/metal-gear-solid-rising-gets-new-producer/#comments Team members at Kojima Productions continue to play Hot Potato with poor Raiden's emotions. After Kojima announced in June of 2010 that he was passing the reigns of Metal Gear Solid: Rising to Shigenobu Matsuyama, control has now passed to Yuji Korekado (who's also working on Zone of the Enders HD). The news was confirmed via the Twitter feed of Kojima Productions producer Kenichiro Imaizumi.

The announcement raises a lot of pressing questions, not the least of which are these: "Joystiq, how did you spell all those names correctly on the first try and without any sort of reference material?" Please, please. We appreciate the flattery, but we're professionals. This is what we do.

With any luck, we'll have a better idea of the direction Korekado is taking the game when it's shown off at this year's VGAs.

JoystiqMetal Gear Solid: Rising gets new producer originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Kojima-Productionskonamimetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftplaystationps3Shigenobu-MatsuyamaxboxYuji-KorekadoThu, 17 Nov 2011 10:15:00 EST<![CDATA[New Alan Wake, BioWare game, and MGS Rising details at VGAs]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/new-alan-wake-bioware-game-and-mgs-rising-details-at-vgas/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/new-alan-wake-bioware-game-and-mgs-rising-details-at-vgas/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/new-alan-wake-bioware-game-and-mgs-rising-details-at-vgas/#comments Geoff Keighley has begun ramping up the excitement for the VGA show coming December 10, revealing some of the surprises coming up at the Spike event -- but, of course, only enough that they'll still be surprises.

"Alan Wake returns," he tweeted, "and BioWare unveils a new game from a new studio." In addition, Hideo Kojima will reveal "the truth about Metal Gear Solid: Rising." Man, remember Metal Gear Solid: Rising?

Keighley isn't hogging all the exclusives for Spike, having graciously shared "teaser images" of the new announcements with Game Informer, who is itself no stranger to exclusives, for the December issue. Rest assured, we'll get you all the info as soon as the game media's "1%" allow it to trickle down to your prole pals at Joystiq.

JoystiqNew Alan Wake, BioWare game, and MGS Rising details at VGAs originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>alan-wakebiowaremetal-gear-solid-risingmicrosoftoccupy-vgaspcplaystationps3remedyvga-2011xboxThu, 03 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Kojima: something big planned for 25th Metal Gear anniversary next year]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/27/kojima-something-big-planned-for-25th-metal-gear-anniversary-ne/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/27/kojima-something-big-planned-for-25th-metal-gear-anniversary-ne/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/27/kojima-something-big-planned-for-25th-metal-gear-anniversary-ne/#comments Kojima Productions head honcho Hideo Kojima took to his company's official podcast to address some rumors surrounding his ongoing projects. Rather than elaborating on fans' questions (and potentially spoil Konami's long-term marketing plans), Kojima simply delivered either "Yes" or "No" answers (summed up by Andriasang).

First up: He won't be making any big splashes at next month's E3, (that's a "no"), but he did confirm that there are big plans afoot for next year's 25th anniversary of Metal Gear.

Before you get too excited, he also shot down the dream of a Metal Gear Solid 4 port to NGP, and offered another "No" when asked if MGS5 would be announced next month. As for the 3DS port of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater, "yes," it'll arrive by year's end.

Finally, he noted that we won't see Metal Gear Solid Rising's multiplayer anytime soon, never mind at Microsoft's E3 presser (where he will not appear). Now we're hoping that Kojima's big surprise for next year is reversing all of this year's "No" answers.

[Image source: Mega64 (screencap)]

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3dse3-2011hideo-kojimakojima-productionsmetal-gear-solid-5metal-gear-solid-risingmetal-gear-solid-snake-eater-3dmicrosoftngpplaystationplaystation-vitapodcastps3vitaxboxFri, 27 May 2011 14:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Kojima Productions recruiting more Metal Gear staff]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/13/kojima-productions-recruiting-more-metal-gear-staff/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/13/kojima-productions-recruiting-more-metal-gear-staff/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/13/kojima-productions-recruiting-more-metal-gear-staff/#comments Otacon: Snake! I was looking at Konami's website and saw that Kojima Productions is hiring staff to make the "next generation" of Metal Gear Solid.
Snake: Metal Gear!
Otacon: Right, Snake, people to work on the next generation of Metal Gear Solid games.
Snake: Next-generation special forces?!
Otacon: Well, I guess you could call them that. Konami is hiring designers, programmers and artists.
Snake: They're building an army!
Otacon: They could just need some additional staff to work on Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Snake. You remember, the one starring Raiden.
Snake: Raiden!
Otacon: ...
Snake: Otacon?!
Otacon: What is it, Snake?
Snake: Tell the story again about the time I drove a ... Metal Gear!
Codec: *click*

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Spoiler alert: Continue reading to find out ...

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JoystiqGuess who's joining the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood? originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While Metal Gear Solid Rising may be coming to both platforms, it'll be available in 3D on the PlayStation 3. Imagine: the gore, the body parts and the watermelons that could be flying out of your fancy 3DTV screen!

In addition to Rising, a number of other games were shown in 3D at Sony's Tokyo Game Show press conference, including Final Fantasy 14 and Hot Shots Golf 5.

JoystiqMetal Gear Solid Rising to cut through the third dimension originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Konami revealed at Gamescom that it will be possible to have a "no kill" game of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, much like you can in previous Metal Gear Solid games (which reward you with high ranks, or, in the case of Metal Gear Solid 3, stealth camo). Of course, those Metal Gear Solid games in which it was possible to do that also had tranquilizer guns. Does Raiden have a tranquilizer ... sword?

"When you encounter human resistance you can slice their weapons in half, causing them to run away in fear," IGN explains. "If you accidentally slice off a hand or two, well, that will be forgiven, we are told." So even if you choose to play that way, you still get to slice a lot of things with your sword. That's a relief! The game is also full of mechanical enemies and watermelons, which can all be safely sliced without damaging your no-kill status.

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With a new development team at the helm and an emphasis on fluid action, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is being positioned as a new standard in the long-running franchise. Shigenobu Matsuyama, creative producer for Kojima Productions, told journalists at a Rising roundtable discussion during E3 that the game would be a counterpart to Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid legacy, with possible future installments going "back and forth" between Rising and more traditional Metal Gear games.

"But for Rising, we're gonna position it where people might know Metal Gear Solid, but they were reluctant to buy it," Matsuyama said. "[They might say],'Stealth is not my style,' or they didn't have the hardware because they only had a 360. We would like to target this audience where it's kind of potential Metal Gear Solid users and again, as I said earlier, the story will be based between MGS2 and MGS4." He added that players who were not familiar with the franchise's Byzantine plot would still be able to become involved and have fun with the game's "Zan-Datsu" cutting concept.

"'Zan' means to cut, and 'Datsu' means to take," explained game director Mineshi Kimura. "We probably would offer a more wide range of play style so that you can aim where you want to cut and how deep you want to cut in order to achieve what you want to take. So, the play style will be quite in more depth than just cutting and killing."

Gallery: Metal Gear Solid: Rising (E3)


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Continue reading Metal Gear Solid: Rising trailer is packed with cut scenes

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Kojima Productions can make some excellent games but its countdowns are transcendent. Continuing an annual tradition, Hideo and company have opened yet another mysterious E3 countdown, this time teasing images of various foods being chopped. Perhaps the imagery of foods is supposed to represent the hunger gamers have for exciting revelations from the trade show. Or maybe the use of knives is symbolic of the lighting bolt action waiting to be discovered in Metal Gear Solid Rising. Or maybe, just maybe, Kojima is set to unveil his next project: Cooking Mama 4: Mama's Revenge, the franchise's first M-rated entry.

As usual, we welcome your conspiracy theories. However, let us warn you: you will be wrong.

JoystiqKojima's E3 2010 teaser site will whet your appetite originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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"The production lines within Kojima Productions are currently full," Hideo Kojima writes on the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker blog. The candid comments, translated by Andriasang, spring from the designer's recently expressed desire to return to the Zone of the Enders universe -- someday. Clogged by large, anticipated titles like the aforementioned Peace Walker and Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the Kojima Productions pipeline doesn't have the room to support the fan-requested sequel. But there's plenty of room in the revered designer's head.

"I already have a game plan and method for sales in my head," Kojima says before concluding, "I cannot make a promise about time. However, I can promise a sequel." While far from seeing the green light, a new Zone of the Enders would seek to obtain a level of success the previous game missed out on, just as it missed a more profitable release window. "At that time, if I hadn't made a mistake with the release date, Anubis [as ZOE 2 is known in Japan] might have ended up a major Kojima Productions title to follow MGS, still seeing development as a series." How frustrating -- if only that considerable retconning power could be put to use outside of the Metal Gear mythology.

JoystiqKojima has plan for ZOE sequel, but lacks production line originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you've been wondering why Hideo Kojima has been spending nearly all his interview time as of late talking up Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and not the console-bound Metal Gear Solid Raiden Rising, it's probably because the latter's presently a bit of an experiment-in-progress. "We're at an experiment level right now. We're doing a lot of experiments for Rising," Kojima told GamePro during GamesCom. It is, after all, promised to deliver a "different kind of action" for the series.

From the sound of his subsequent statements, the experimentation goes beyond the all-new graphics engine planned for the title and into the realm of overall development philosophy for the legend's studio. "Even the management and team formations that we have at Kojima Productions, we are changing this around," he said, adding, "The core of it is, of course, the Rising team. They're doing a lot of high-level stuff with great staffs."

And no, that last line isn't Kojima's way of saying the game's "young" team is actually spending all its time playing World of Warcraft. (We hope.)

JoystiqKojima: Metal Gear Solid Rising at an 'experimental' stage originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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On the subject of the future, Kojima explained that Metal Gear Solid Rising is a good fit for younger KojiPro staff, while Peace Walker requires the Kojima Touch(R). "The younger staff couldn't really understand [Peace Walker's] background, and since I made the concept and overall storyline, I thought that I would go more deeply in, because for me it was more understandable a setting." Rising, however, is a new story set in the future, without so much influence from Kojima's existing storyline.

JoystiqConfused about Metal Gear Solid's timeline? So is Hideo Kojima originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember when Kojima's countdown ended ... and started another countdown? Man, that was fun! The creator of the Metal Gear series seemingly had a big laugh as he teased gamers all the way to his E3 announcements: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Rising for PS3 and Xbox 360, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

As the countdown continued, the site featured a number of symbols that flashed on the screen. Many of you attempted to break the code ... but were you successful? Kojima just revealed what each of those symbols was supposed to mean:
  • 5 = it is an MGS5 class game
  • S = Snake
  • 巳＝snake in Kanji
  • E = E3
  • R = Raiden
  • 3 = 3 from 360 and E3
  • 6 = 6 from 360
  • P and S = PSP and adding 3 makes it PS3
Once again, Kojima asks gamers: "Did you like it?" We think we can speak for most gamers when we say ... "no."

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Short of a blank check from Microsoft or Sony -- like, what was the asking price for Agent exclusivity, you know? -- there's little incentive for a third-party publisher to release a big-budget game for only Xbox 360 or PS3. It's possible that third-party exclusives will flourish as small, downloadable games and DLC (though those GTA IV add-ons weren't cheap for Microsoft), but it's more likely that they'll diminish as cheap carnival games -- geddit? Of course, with Microsoft and Sony designing their own waggleware apparatuses, such low-grade third-party exclusives won't necessarily continue to be exclusive, either.

Still, Kim argues that "exclusive content is really important." And so, it's up to the first-party publishers to essentially unlevel the playing field with their own IPs. "[It's] really not about relying on third parties, because I don't think that that is sustainable, as we've proven," Kim concludes. "And it's up to each of us to differentiate on our own."

JoystiqMGS Rising levels third-party playing field, Microsoft's Kim declares originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite stating that he would be more hands-off with the Metal Gear Solid games after the fourth installment, Kojima has decided to once again roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Speaking with Japanese mag Famitsu (via PSPHyper), the gaming icon has said that Peace Walker will pretty much be his MGS5 -- something that will likely be excellent news to every Genome soldier reading this very post -- and that the MGS4 team will be working on it. (For some new Peace Walker screens, fresh out of Kojima Productions, check out our gallery embedded below).

Moving on to Metal Gear Solid Rising, Kojima says the game will include "a completely different kind of action than what has appeared in the series so far," though we're not sure if that's a good or bad thing. He also mentioned that he will be involved with the project "more deeply" than a normal producer which, considering the expectations and the new engine involved, makes sense.

The implicit bad news here: With all this Metal Gear stuff taking up Kojima's time (not to mention Castlevania: Lords of Shadow), we're unlikely to see that rumored Snatcher and/or Zone of the Enders and/or Something Else title anytime soon.

Source - Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker details
Source - Kojima discusses Metal Gear Solid Rising [via Eurogamer]

Gallery: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (06/15/09)

JoystiqKojima says MGS: Peace Walker is his MGS5, calls Rising a 'different kind of action' game originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to Kojima Productions assistant producer Sean Eyestone, the team is remaking Rising's engine "from scratch" to make it look better than MGS4. Speaking during a recent Kojima Productions podcast, Eyestone describes the multiplatform project as "a big project like Metal Gear Solid 4," adding that the team "team is serious about making it look as good as possible on every platform." Let's just hope our meager eyes can take it.

[Via 1UP]

JoystiqMetal Gear Solid Rising getting re-done graphics engine originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've scoured the dark corners and survived the inferno to piece together this roundup of all things Xbox at E3. Why? Just 'cause we love you. So, draw nier and shift your eyes past the break.

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During Konami's E3 press conference today, Kojima confirmed assumptions that Metal Gear Solid Rising will be multiplatform, now announced for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and PC. Kojima also shed some light on the mysteries of "lightning bolt action," calling Rising an experiment in building technology first, and then delivering new content based on it. A team of new, "young" staff will produce the project.

Additionally, Kojima revealed the significance of the storm teaser from his website. Contrary to your seemingly acute observations, the storm symbolizes the current economic situation, and the entertainment business is the force that will "clear up the storm." Shucks. That was so going to be our next guess!

Joystiq'!' Metal Gear Solid Rising confirmed for PS3, PC originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>kojimakojima-productionskonamimetal-gear-solidmetal-gear-solid-risingmgsWed, 03 Jun 2009 18:44:00 EST<![CDATA[Rumor: Listing reveals Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and new console Castlevania]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/rumor-listing-reveals-metal-gear-solid-peace-walker-and-new-co/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/rumor-listing-reveals-metal-gear-solid-peace-walker-and-new-co/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/rumor-listing-reveals-metal-gear-solid-peace-walker-and-new-co/#comments Konami's press event won't start until June 3rd, but it looks like some of the company's line-up may already been spoiled. A seemingly careless listing on Gamespress (a resource for video game-related press releases) suggests that two of Konami/Kojima Production's new titles could be Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for Xbox 360 and PS3.

The mention of a second new MGS follows assumptions we had previously (and could be the name of the already confirmed PSP title), while the addition of "Castlevania" to the already known Lords of Shadow is something that was unexpected. Although, on second thought ... it does look a bit like a Castelvania title (see the concept art after the break). Lord of Shadows has been an object of attention lately and was presumed to be the game teased in Kojima's other teaser website.

Meanwhile, one last revelation suggests Metal Gear Solid: Rising is not a 360 exclusive but will be going to PC and PS3 as well. Considering, the non-use of the word "exclusive" in Microsoft's press conference where Hideo Kojima personally unveiled Rising, it left many to speculate whether the game was exclusive to the platform. Keep in mind, however, that this listing does not confirm anything and might be a database entry mistake.

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JoystiqRumor: Listing reveals Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and new console Castlevania originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>castlevaniacastlevania-lords-of-shadowkojima-productionskonamimetal-gear-solidmetal-gear-solid-peace-walkermetal-gear-solid-risingMicrosoftrumorXbox-360Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Metal Gear Solid Rising coming to Xbox 360 [update]]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/metal-gear-solid-rising-coming-to-xbox-360/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/metal-gear-solid-rising-coming-to-xbox-360/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/metal-gear-solid-rising-coming-to-xbox-360/#comments Hideo Kojima, you liar! The stealth action king stopped by the Microsoft Media Briefing to reveal Metal Gear Solid Rising for Xbox 360. Development's under way, but this new game may not be exclusive.

The video shown features the storms shown in the Kojima Countdown -- oh, and it also features the gaunt face of noted techno-ninja, Raiden. Hopefully we'll know more in the coming days!

[Update: The Kojima Countdown has ended! Now there's a page that ... links to this logo image.]

JoystiqMetal Gear Solid Rising coming to Xbox 360 [update] originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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